Ektron CMS400.NET Developer Reference Manual - IDIA

RSS Summary Attributes

RSS Summary Attributes Starting Folder Custom ASP Functions Listed below are all the different attributes and descriptions about them. In this attribute, you will need to specify which content folder you will want to get all the summaries from. There are two options for this attribute: Value Description ““ By leaving the value blank, all the summaries from the root content folder will be displayed. “\Folder Path You can specify a specific folder to display the summaries from by inserting the folder path Recursive When you setup the search to be recursive, you are allowing the search to search all the subfolders associated with the starting folder you had specified. You have two options for this attribute: Value Description 1 Recursive - summaries in the starting folder’s subfolders will also be displayed. 0 Non-recursive - only summaries in the starting folder will be displayed. Order By This attribute will sort the summary results by different options. There are five different ways to sort the summaries: Value Title Summaries sorted by title EktronCMS400.NETDeveloperReferenceManual, Version 5.0, Revision 8 326

Custom ASP Functions Value DateModified Date Created Startdate AuthorFname AuthorLname Summaries sorted by date modified date created The Start Date assigned to the content block when created. author’s first names author’s last name Ascending/Descending This attribute is an addition to the previous OrderBy attribute. By default, the list of the summaries are descending, meaning they will follow the path of A-B-C, or 1-2-3. When set to ascending, they will order by Z-Y-X or 3-2-1.You will have the option to re arrange these to display either in ascending or descending order. To do this, add the following to the OrderBy attribute: Value asc, 1 desc, 0 Description This will order the Summaries in an ascending order This will order the Summaries in a descending order. This is the default setting. By using the ascending/descending option, you will have the option to set the order of content blocks from most recent to oldest, or vice versa. As well as ordering the list by the user’s first names or last names in ascending or descending order. Max Number This attribute determines how many summaries appear on a page. Enter the number of summaries to be displayed. To display all summaries, enter 0 (zero) and you will display unlimited results. EktronCMS400.NETDeveloperReferenceManual, Version 5.0, Revision 8 327